Eugène started out as a house builder, but influenced by the creative energy of his neighbourhood he started to learn traditional sculpting in wood. ‘There was always something happening in our neighbourhood with music, many sculptors and Vodou all around. This made me begin the life of an artist.’ Eugène’s work became increasingly influenced by contemporary Haitian artists such as Nasson and then started to collaborate with established Haitian artists, Mario Benjamin and Barbara Prezeau. Eugène fused the fetish effigy with an apocalyptic MTV futuristic vision. Much of his work is figurative using human skulls for heads and imbued with a bold sense of irony, sexuality and humour. “It's usually always the bourgeoisie who own the galleries. But I wanted to have a gallery, not only a gallery, but it must be a museum. This is the reason why I have given the name 'E Pluribus Unum' Musee d'Art to my studio and yard.” |
Born in 1959 in P-au-P, Haiti
eugeneandre@yahoo.fr
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 1998 | JAMA art fair, P-au-P, Haiti |
| 1999 | Maison du Tourisme, P-au-P, Haiti |
| 2000 | JAMA art fair, P-au-P, Haiti |
| 2001 | Baka, Monstres et Chimeres, Centre Culturel AFRICAMERICA, P-au-P, Haiti |
| 2002 | Hotel de Ville, P-au-P, Haiti |
| 2002 | 2th Forum Transculturel d'art Contemporain, Musee d'Art Haitien, P-au-P, Haiti |
| 2003 | Sculptures Urbaines, Banque Centrale de la Barbade, Barbade |
| 2003 | Musee de l'Independance, P-au-P, Haiti |
| 2004 | Sculptures Urbaines, Banque Centrale de la Barbade, Barbade |
| 2004 | Lespri Endepandan, Discovering Haitian Sculpture, Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, USA |
| 2004 | 3th Forum Transculturel d'Art Contemporain, Centre Culturel AFRICAMERICA P-au-P, Haiti |
| 2004 | KAFOU, Institut Francais d'Haiti, P-au-P, Haiti |
| 2005 | Ecole des Beaux Arts de l'Ile de la Reunion, Ile de la Reunion |
| 2005 | Fete de la Sculpture, Institut Francais d'Haiti, P-au-P, Haiti |
| 2006 | Fete de la Sculpture, Institut Francais d'Haiti, P-au-P, Haiti |
| 2006 | 4th Forum Transculturel d'Art Contemporain, Musee du Pantheon National |
| 2005 | Gallerie Bourbon-Lally, ARTE AMERICAS, Miami, USA |
| 2006 | Galerie Bourbon Lally, Outsider Art Fair, New York, USA |
| 2006 | Galerie Boubon-Lally, The National Black Art Fair, New York, USA |
| 2006 | Freedom Sculpture Launch, Musee d'Art Haitien, P-au-P, Haiti |
| 2006 | Freedom Sculpture, Touring the UK |
| 2006 | The Sculptors of Grand Rue, The Foundry, London, UK |
| 2007 | Fete de la Sculpture, Institut Francais d'Haiti, P-au-P, Haiti |
| 2007 | Vodou Rezistans, The Foundry, London, UK |
| 2007 | Vodou Riche, Colombia College, Chicago, USA |
| 2007 | Influences Caraibes, La Dynamo, Paris, France |
| 2008 | MEG, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 2009 | Kreyol Factory, Parc de la Villette, Paris |
| 2009 | Global Caribbean Project, Art Basel, Miami, USA |
| 2009 | Ghetto Biennale, Port-au-Prince, Haiti |
| 2010 | 24 Month Meditation, Venice, Italy |
| 2010 | Gloria Maria Gallery, Milan, Italy |
| 2011 | Brown University, Providence, USA |
| 2011 | Agnes B, Paris, France |
| 2011 | XISM, Etnografiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2011 | Haitian Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale |
| 2011 | Global Caribbean, Puerto Rico, Paris, Martinique |
| 2011 | Ghetto Biennale, Port-au-Prince |
| 2011 | Nouvo Rezistans, Institut Francais, Port-au-Prince |
| 2012 | Rekouperasyon Art, United Nations, Port-au-Prince |
| 2012 | Sculpture Commission for ArtReach, Cultural Olympiad, UK |
| 2012 | Folk Badji with Jeremy Deller’s Folk Archive, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK |
| 2012 | In Extremis: Death and Life in 21st Century Haitian Art, Fowler Museum |
| 2012 | Haiti: Royaume de ce Monde, Martinique |
| 2012 | Kafou: Haiti, History & Vodou, Nottingham Contemporary, UK |
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